From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 22 17:01:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA11711 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 May 1996 17:01:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA11700 for ; Wed, 22 May 1996 17:01:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-2.mail.demon.net (disperse.demon.co.uk [158.152.1.77]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with SMTP id RAA28957 for ; Wed, 22 May 1996 17:01:31 -0700 Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-2.mail.demon.net id aa22324; 23 May 96 0:57 +0100 Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa20722; 23 May 96 0:50 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.7.5/8.6.12) id WAA02279; Wed, 22 May 1996 22:02:15 GMT Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 22:02:15 GMT From: James Raynard Message-Id: <199605222202.WAA02279@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: june@adn.edu.ph CC: questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: (june@adn.edu.ph) Subject: Re: Missing /usr/ports subdirectories Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I noticed that I don't have the /usr/ports subdirectories. I have > read from a lot of e-mails that in there are contained the ports > collection. I installed the 2.2-960501-SNAP distribution and I guess it > was not there. Is there a way I could get the ports collection with > manually FTP-ing each and every subdirs in the download site? In fact, each port is just a skeleton - when you type 'make', it pulls down the source from the CD or by FTP, saving you from having to download all the source for every single port. Clever eh? 8-) Also, FreeBSD's FTP server supports on-the-fly archiving and compression, so you can do something like:- $ ftp ftp.freebsd.org # Or a local mirror > cd /where/the/ports/live > get audio.tar.gz # FTP server will tar & gzip the audio ports > quit $ tar xzvf audio.tar.gz to get all the audio ports at once! -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland jraynard@dial.pipex.com james@jraynard.demon.co.uk